Yorkshire wedding venue woos credit-crunch brides

Yorkshire brides have been reluctant to walk down the aisle this year due to the soaring costs of weddings and the dreaded current climate. Yorkshire Registrars office has reported a decline in the number of couples wanting to marry in 2009 and romantics at the York Pavilion Hotel want to encourage couples to tie the knot.

The York Pavilion Hotel has always been a popular wedding venue for hundreds of brides. The Georgian hotel, which is based in Fulford, has seen a decline in the number of weddings being booked this year, as more and more brides are putting plans on hold due to the current climate and are either waiting to save more money or scaling down their wedding plans.

Sales manager Vanessa Render said: “The house comes alive when there are weddings held here as it is such an intimate venue for wedding parties to take over the whole of the house and use all the old rooms which suit a celebration.

“The hotel has a lavish interior design in-keeping with the original Georgian style of the house and is a special venue which looks magical in photographs with its large Georgian entrance covered in ivy, its wall to ceiling bay windows which open onto a private walled garden and its large bedrooms with huge four-poster beds.”

The hotel has recently launched a range of wedding packages which are aimed at brides who want to be careful with costs but still have a wedding with plenty of style. The wedding packages start at only £999 and include the costs for the whole event including food and a room at the hotel for the evening for the bride and groom. The package includes;

• Complimentary room hire for the civil ceremony
• Red carpet on arrival
• Congratulatory glass of Champagne for the Bride & Groom
• Hire of cake stand and knife
• Hotel master of ceremonies
• Hire of room for your evening reception
• DJ for evening entertainment
• 7 item evening buffet for 70 guests
• Room for bride and groom with full English breakfast
• Cash bar with private bar tender

The wedding packages are advertised on the hotel website at yorkpavilionhotel.com.